Monday, July 05, 2010
Sunburn Stupidity
This is frightening (via Pandas Thumb):
Oh, it's not the teacher who is too religion-besotted to teach science as it is ... that is all-too-common in the US.
It is the kid at the end (1:54):
We didn't ... like ... evolve from anything ... that doesn't make any sense ... I mean ... how can, like, an African-American person evolve from a white person ... we're different skin.
Such ignorance ... and the unwillingness of their teachers to refute it ... is a disgrace to our country.
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The student who said something like: we couldn't have evolved from some organism makes me think of my often repeated point that we developed from a single cell.
Anyway, this reinforces for me the belief that what concerns most people about evolution is not the Bible, but simply the yuck factor about being related to the rest of the world of life.
TomS
Anyway, this reinforces for me the belief that what concerns most people about evolution is not the Bible, but simply the yuck factor about being related to the rest of the world of life.
TomS
# posted by 
: 7:41 AM
: 7:41 AM
... what concerns most people about evolution is not the Bible, but simply the yuck factor about being related to the rest of the world of life.
... Even if it is our own species ...
... Even if it is our own species ...
I have no problems with the thought that I am closely related to the anthropoid apes but the thought that I'm related to American Bible Belt Christians fills me with horror.
I wonder, if there were something disreputable about being related to monkeys, whether it is better that the relationship be due to "random events", or because I was deliberately designed that way.
If I found out that my great-grandfather was a horse thief, knowledge of that would not incline me to follow the family trade; but if I thought that being a horse thief were part of cosmic design, then I might think that I should follow divine ordinance.
TomS
If I found out that my great-grandfather was a horse thief, knowledge of that would not incline me to follow the family trade; but if I thought that being a horse thief were part of cosmic design, then I might think that I should follow divine ordinance.
TomS
# posted by : 10:02 AM
: 10:02 AM
What can you do? If you allow that, in a free society, people are entitled to manage their local education system and decide what shall or shall not be taught to their children, then this is the price you pay for that freedom.
# posted by : 5:58 PM
: 5:58 PM
There are limits to freedom, especially when those limits protect other's freedom. The Establishment Clause keeps people from using public school as a tool to evangelize their religion.
# posted by : 9:55 AM
: 9:55 AM
The good news is that these kids haven't encountered the real world yet. Give them 10 years. Sure, most of them will think the same way then, too. But I'll bet not all of them will.
When I heard the student comments saying that evolution just "doesn't make sense," my first thought was, "Maybe if you'd shut up and listen to the information being taught, it WOULD make sense!"
Tough to break through that wall of indoctrination, though, I'm sure. :-)
Tough to break through that wall of indoctrination, though, I'm sure. :-)
When I heard the student comments saying that evolution just "doesn't make sense," my first thought was, "Maybe if you'd shut up and listen to the information being taught, it WOULD make sense!"
Tough to break through that wall of indoctrination, though, I'm sure. :-)
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Tough to break through that wall of indoctrination, though, I'm sure. :-)
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